The unsteady acquisition of information about the classical past from texts, and later from artefacts and excavations, was transmuted through changing times and cultural preoccupations.

He has also advised private equity firms on the acquisition of information and media companies.

Navigating across interrelated sentences within this network rather than the use of conventional keyword searches allows for stepwise and controlled acquisition of information.

The term implies acquisition of information by means external to the basic limiting assumptions of science, such as that organisms can only receive information from the past to the present.